Tracheotomy was performed and a special corkscrew
devised to extract it, but unfortunately the patient died of slow
asphyxiation and exhaustion. Herrick mentions the case of a boy
of fourteen months who swallowed a shawl-pin two inches long,
which remained in the lungs four years, during which time there
was a constant dry and spasmodic cough, and corresponding
depression and emaciation. When it was ultimately coughed up it
appeared in one large piece and several smaller ones, and was so
corroded as to be very brittle. After dislodgment of the pin
there was subsidence of the cough and rapid recovery.
Lapeyre mentions an elderly gentleman who received a sudden slap
on the back while smoking a cigarette, causing him to start and
take a very deep inspiration. The cigarette was drawn into the
right bronchus, where it remained for two months without causing
symptoms or revealing its presence. It then set up a
circumscribed pneumonia and cardiac dropsy which continued two
months longer, at which time, during a violent fit of coughing,
the cigarette was expelled enveloped in a waxy, mucus-like
matter. Louis relates the case of a man who carried a louis-d'or
in his lung for six and a half years.
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